* "Rehab" from ''Music/BackToBlack'' by Music/AmyWinehouse (and all the jokes about Winehouse being a drugged-up mess) has officially become more disturbing since she passed away after a short lifetime of drugs and alcohol abuse. * Music/WarrenZevon has a couple of these; most noticeably "My Shit's Fucked Up", and "Life'll Kill ya." The former is about a patient finding out he's terminally ill (in a decidedly un-clinical way), and the latter includes the lyrics "Some get the awful, awful diseases." Warren died in 2003 of Mesothelioma, a form of lung cancer. * The last song on the final Music/ElliottSmith album released in his lifetime is titled "Bye." His first posthumously released album features "King's Crossing", which is basically a musical suicide note. Depressing when he used to perform it live, now it's just chilling.** The song "Baby Britain" includes the line "Nothing's gonna drag me down to a death that's not worth cheating" just before the last chorus.** Also the line "I don't feel afraid to die" from "In The Lost And Found".* Music/{{The Notorious BIG}} named his first two albums ''Music/ReadyToDie'' and ''Life After Death''. He was gunned down in Los Angeles just weeks before the release of the latter, which ends with a song titled "[[DeadArtistsAreBetter You're Nobody ('Til Somebody Kills You)]]".* The video for the Music/JohnnyCash cover of "Hurt" has a quick cut to his wife June Carter Cash as he sings "Everyone I know/Goes away in the end". Her death a few months later made the video even more depressing.* In 1997, Music/MichaelJackson released the song "Morphine" on the album ''Blood on the Dance Floor: [=HIStory=] in the Mix''. The song was a chilling description of drug abuse, with lines like "A heart attack, baby" and "Trust in me / Just in me / Put all your trust in me", the latter line referring to dependence on the titular drug. The bridge is even worse: the angry singing turns into a soft, melancholy melody describing a person's slide into addiction, specifically to the painkiller Demerol, while the sounds of a respirator, an ECG machine, and presumably a doctor talking are heard in the background. Between 2003 and 2005, Jackson allegedly became dependent on Demerol. Then, on June 25, 2009, Jackson died of cardiac arrest, eventually deemed to have been a homicide caused by a lethal combination of drugs, primarily the anesthetic propofol, administered by his personal doctor (who was convicted of manslaughter in 2011 and sentenced to four years in prison).** On top of the obvious points listed above, there is also a chilling pattern present on the album as a whole. The album, primarily a remix album, included five original songs, "Morphine" being the second. The first song, "Blood on the Dance Floor", sang about an attempted murder (albeit with a knife), while the final two original songs ("Ghosts" and "Is It Scary") both dealt with ghostly imagery straight out of a horror movie. Combining "Morphine" with a song about homicide and two songs about ghosts is even more chillingly prophetic than the song alone.** "Breaking News", one of the unfinished-in-his-lifetime songs on the posthumously-assembled ''Michael'', starts with fake news reports on Jackson, including the line "The plot begins to destroy Michael Jackson," in keeping with the overall "scumbag media" theme of the song. This line takes on a more sinister interpretation when one realizes that "Breaking News" was an extremely controversial song, as it was widely believed - with strong evidence behind it - to be another singer imitating Jackson's voice on a song he recorded no vocals for in his lifetime. ** ''[=HIStory=]'''s "They Don't Care About Us" includes the line "I'm a victim of police brutality." In 2003, after being arrested and booked on child molestation charges, Jackson claimed he had been injured and mistreated by the police, but the subsequent investigation revealed his claims to be a PoliceBrutalityGambit.** The song "P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing)" from ''Music/{{Thriller}}'' feels a bit unnerving imagining Michael singing "pretty young thing: I wanna love you" after all the child molestation scandals from the 1990s on.** Likewise, "Someone in the Dark" from the ''Film/{{ET}}'' soundtrack: "When someone in the dark reaches out to you..."* Kurt Cobain's suicide makes some Music/{{Nirvana}} material uncomfortable.** "Come as You Are" from ''Music/{{Nevermind}}'' has the chorus, "And I swear that I don't have a gun/No I don't have a gun/No I don't have a gun." (Cobain killed himself by shooting himself in the head.)** One of their last singles is called "I Hate Myself And I Want To Die," though the lyrics have nothing to do with it. This song was reportedly named after the phrase Cobain liked to use whenever people asked him "How are you?", because he hated that question.** "Lithium"'s bridge has Kurt singing "I X it/you", followed by "I'm not gonna crack." He did.** When Kurt Cobain was 15, he made a short film entitled, "Kurt Commits Bloody Suicide".** One photo of the band has Kurt ''holding a shotgun in his mouth.''** After Creator/RiverPhoenix's sudden death in October 1993, Kurt Cobain dedicated performances of "Jesus Don't Want Me For a Sunbeam" to Phoenix (among other stars who died young), during Music/{{Nirvana}}'s last shows from November 1993 through February 1994, only months before Cobain himself died.** An interview with Cobain turned to the subject of school shootings, and Cobain said that if he ever felt inclined to do such a thing, he'd most likely kill himself to prevent him from hurting anyone. While ItMakesSenseInContext and probably even came off as reassuring at the time, it's still a pretty chilling sentence to read.** The first line of "Smells Like Teen Spirit" is "Load up on guns..."; eerie after Cobain's suicide, horrifying after school shootings like Columbine and Sandy Hook.* Much of Music/MarilynManson's work suffers from this due to various reasons. The first three albums were hit with this once the (possibly first, as Manson has said he's working on a second) autobiography "The Long, Hard Road Out of Hell" came out and context was added to them. Then, Columbine happened a year later, leading to [[QuoteMine quote mining]], [[MisBlamed misblaming]] and outright bullshit. Later, in 2003, all of the adorable images of Manson and Twiggy were tainted by their falling out caused by Manson being a control freak. Similarly, all the images of Manson and Dita were then tainted by their divorce and all the happenings on both sides, with him cheating and her serving divorce papers on his birthday. A similar thing also happened with Evan Rachel-Wood and the album ''Eat Me, Drink Me'' heavily centered around their co-dependant, destructive romance. Then, while Twiggy rejoined the band in 2009, the man he replaced in 1993 due to a Christmas Day heroin overdose, Gidget Gein, died of another overdose. Gidget had a cameo in the video for "(s)AINT", which featured a ton of self-abuse and drug use, and that was his last interaction with the band All of the odd antics and behavior of his mother, talked about in his book, along with their somewhat turbulent interactions, also are tainted by her dying of dementia. Suddenly it's not so funny when she does weird stuff like naming the rats that are supposed to be fed to his snake "Marilyn" and "Manson" and successfully giving one CPR using a plastic bag. Additionally, Daisy Berkowitz, the co-founder of the band, was Manson and TrentReznor's punching bag for several years until he was ousted from the band. Now he has Stage Four Colon Cancer. He's been hanging on longer than most, and is definitely doing better than feared, but the outlook is still grim. ** Also, in the last year or so, Manson's become far more open about his own mental issues, with an interview describing quite a few personality quirks, paranoias (he doesn't take his pants all the way off during sex in case there's a fire, for example) and stuff, as well as his ongoing self-harm generally focused on his hands. As a child, and even in 1998, he believed that he was lucky, as despite being an Agent Orange baby (his father dropped it on Vietnam, something that has led to Manson describing his father, non-humorously, as a mass murderer, although they're extremely close, so it's likely that Hugh Warner has his own demons involving it), he had no physical deformities. In hindsight, it's pretty obvious that there was still something that happened there. ** Tony Wiggins, bus driver for Pantera and someone Manson considers the most terrifying person he's ever known, to the point of actually traumatizing him, dropped out of the public eye after being more public as the crazy guy tagging along with Manson and Twiggy. Over 20 years later, he re-emerged. He's opened a family-owned liquer store in his hometown, the very first, getting news coverage. The Harsher in Hindsight kicks in when you realize that a man notorious for homemade BDSM devices that almost killed people has settled down into a normal life and has kids. RetiredMonster, in real life. * A song from Music/EltonJohn's ''Blue Moves'' album from 1976, "Idol", is a rumination on the rise and fall of a (possibly fictional) washed-up teen idol from TheFifties, one whose "face has changed, he's not the same anymore". This song was inspired by Elton's meeting Music/ElvisPresley for the first time, and being horrified at the distressed state Elvis was in. A year later, Elvis would be dead. This would serve as a wake-up call for Elton to slow down his own career, lest he wind up like Elvis. Unfortunately, Elton's drug and alcohol habits, promiscuity and bulimia were still taking over his life. After seeing himself in a video singing at Ryan White's funeral as sad, bloated, morbidly obese and "look(ing) like a 75-year old man", he finally took himself to rehab in 1990 and saved his life.** Another song of Elton's, "All The Nasties", released on 1971's ''Madman Across The Water'', is, [[WordOfGod according to lyricist Bernie Taupin]], both a TakeThat to Elton's critics, and a rumination on whether the general public would reject Elton over his homosexuality. Elton would come out, albeit as bisexual, in 1976, at the height of his career. The backlash he would receive over his sexuality would severely damage his career until the release of 1983's ''Too Low For Zero'' album, and even then, he would not enjoy quite the level of success he had in the 1970s.** The final song on Elton's 1986 ''Leather Jackets'' album, recorded at the height of his drug, alcohol and bulimic issues, is a lugubrious ballad titled "I Fall Apart".* A verse in Music/{{Queen}}'s 1989 album, ''Music/TheMiracle'', called "Khashoggi's Ship", contains the lines "I'm in pretty good shape" and "No one stops my party". Freddie Mercury secretly (but knowingly) was dying of AIDS at the time. ** ''The Miracle'' was so called as it was "a miracle" it was finished as Freddie was so ill.** Also "I'm Going Slightly Mad" is not so funny when you know it was all his fears about dementia brought on by AIDS, though WordOfGod said himself that it was just a silly joke song he wrote in about 5 minutes.*** Freddie, Queen, and the few other people who knew about Freddie's illness did and said all that they could to [[HandWave hide the fact that]] [[BlatantLies Freddie had the disease]], at least until it was [[EverybodyKnewAlready too obvious to keep it a secret]]. It wasn't mentioned in interviews, talked about in private, etc. until the night before his death, when Freddie sent the press release. Freddie wanted to [[StatusQuoIsGod carry on as normally as possible]] until the end, and did not want the tabloid press to complicate his life or the lives of those he cared for, or for anyone to worry about him or buy his records out of sympathy. So any WordOfGod you get from Freddie, Queen, etc. up until November 23, 1991 was made while trying to keep the issue a secret and downplay any "clues" about his condition.** Freddie on Queen's declining popularity in the United States: "Guess I'll have to fucking die before we're big there again." [[DeadArtistsAreBetter Sadly, he was right.]]* Music/YokoOno's "Walking on Thin Ice" is a song about the unpredictability of life and death, and the last song Music/JohnLennon worked on. He was shot to death the day he finished recording it, and died clutching the completed mix of the song in his hands.* In August 2009, critically acclaimed indie punk rocker Jay Reatard released his second solo album, ''Watch Me Fall''. A little over five months later in January 2010, he died in his bed of cocaine toxicity, after a tumultuous year that culminated in the firing of his entire live band.* One of Music/BritneySpears' early singles, "Lucky" talks about an actress who has fame, beauty, awards...and soul-crushing loneliness. Given the singer's [[CreatorBreakdown later breakdowns]], the song takes on a creepy air of foretelling.* The song ''Fiction'' from the ''Nightmare'' album, released after Jimmy's death, is painful enough - but when you discover that the song was originally entitled Death and was the last song Jimmy worked on, only 3 days before his death, with lyrics such as "I know you'll find your own way when I'm not with you", the whole song becomes absolutely heartwrenching.** In all fairness, most Avenged Sevenfold songs have became this trope since Jimmy's passing, mainly due to the band's dark subject matter.* Music/WhitneyHouston's sophomore album, ''Whitney'', contained a song called "Love is a Contact Sport". While the lyrics were basic fluff, the title in particular is quite harsher considering the level of physical violence in her marriage to fellow singer Bobby Brown.* The first Jack's Mannequin album, ''Everything In Transit'''s references to being sick was due to Andrew [=McMahon=]'s recovery from tour burnout. Those lyrics would then turn eerily ironic when he visits his doctor for a case of laryngitis only to discover he had leukemia. Even eerier? He was diagnosed with leukemia the day he was finished with mixing the album and the day he was admitted to the hospital for leukemia was the day the album was released.* The [[Music/RonnieJamesDio Dio]] track "End of the World" off of the "Master of the Moon" album contains the line "They say you never hear the bullet that kills, and I don't hear a sound...". After Music/{{Ronnie James Dio}} died of cancer, it was revealed that the cancer wasn't caught until a very late stage, due to his stubborn reluctance to ever see a doctor (not even once he was having obvious symptoms, so certainly not for routine screenings). In contrast to the image the line originally evoked, it now calls to mind the idea that if he had been listening for the bullet, he might have heard it in time to dodge.* Italian rapper Music/{{Caparezza}} set up a ViralMarketing fake blog to promote his latest album. The blog is written from the perspective of a ConspiracyTheorist, in reference to one of the songs that mock conspiracy nuts, and its second entry is about natural catastrophes. The album came out March 1, 2011, and on March 11 a massive earthquake hit Japan, triggering a colossal tsunami and a nuclear meltdown.* The [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xA3tHGWbuF4 music video]] for {{McFly}}'s 19th single 'That's the Truth' featured bassist Dougie reacting badly to a breakup. Shortly after the video's release, Dougie was admitted to rehab, the reason rumoured to be depression over breaking up with his girlfriend.* Music/JohnLennon's "Beautiful Boy" from "Double Fantasy" (1980), written for his son Sean, features the line "I can hardly wait until you come of age but I guess we'll both just have to be patient". He was murdered later, when his son was five (even his older son, Julian, was only a teenager).* Music/FosterThePeople's "Pumped Up Kicks" is eerie enough in a post-Columbine world:--> All the other kids with the pumped-up kicks better run, better run, outrun my gun\\All the other kids with the pumped-up kicks better run, better run, faster than my bullet:::And it is downright scary after the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Norway_attacks Oslo/Utoya attacks]] where ''69 teenagers'' were murdered by a lone gunman.** According to Wikipedia, the bassist of the band has a cousin ''that survived the Columbine shooting''.** Even worse: this song came out ''before'' the Sandy Hook shooting. Just try to listen to it now...* In 1994, Music/{{Weezer}} released the song "Mykel and Carli," a cute, bittersweet tribute to two girls who ran the Weezer fan club - actually it's something of a {{tuckerization}} as the Mykel and Carli in the ''song'' are a pair of friends in high school, who the narrator still misses. The song, which was released as a B-side to "Undone (The Sweater Song)," takes a more poignant tone when you learn that, a few years after the song was released, both Mykel and Carli died in a tragic car accident on their way to a Weezer show. Perhaps the most "harsher in hindsight" lyric in this context is "Till the school bus came / and took my friends away". The song can be found on the Deluxe Edition of the Blue Album.* ''Wind of Change'' by Music/{{Scorpions}}, a famous ballad celebrating perestroika, often seems like an example of this trope to many Russians, since the fall of the Union resulted in many tragic events in Russia (and most other post-Soviet countries too). The line about an "August summer night, soldiers passing by" is perhaps the most jarring, since the most dramatic events of the [=GKChP=] coup unfolded exactly at August summer nights just one year later after the song was recorded, and yes, it did involve soldiers.** The fact that Germans consider this song a symbol of one of the most joyous events in their history may seem like pure schadenfreude if you think about it.* The Argentine rock band Soda Stereo has a song called ''Cuando pase el temblor'' (After the trembling) that has the verses "Wake me up after the trembling". In 2010, Gustavo Cerati, former vocals and guitar of the band, suffered a cerebral stroke after a show in Venezuela, remaining in a coma under respiratory aide until his dearth in September 2014. Additionally, "temblor" can also means "earth tremor", so it's not uncommon to read on the messages of the song's video things like "all these earthquakes are already passed, wake up already!"* [[Music/BeastieBoys MCA]]'s entire first verse on "Too Many Rappers" from ''Hot Sauce Committee, Part 2''--the last album recorded before his cancer diagnosis--has become this, in light of his untimely death at 47:--->"Yo, I been in the game since before you was born\\ I might still be [=MCin'=] even after you're gone\\ Strange thought, I know, but my skills still grow\\ The 80's, the 90's, 2000's, and so\\ On and on until the crack of dawn\\ Until the year 3000 and beyond\\ Stay up all night, and I MC and never die\\ Cause death is the cousin of sleep"** Speaking of the year 3000, MCA's death puts a sad tint on his appearance on ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}''.* After Ted Gardestad jumped in front of a train, neither of his song lyrics "Can't stop the train from a rollin / or make the wheels turn slow / you know I had to go" and "I believe that life has a happy ending" were quite the same again.* It's either this or FunnyAneurysmMoment, but "[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superman%27s_Song Superman's Song]]" by Music/CrashTestDummies is a mournful dirge that tells the story of Franchise/{{Superman}} who had the power [[SuperDickery to commit great evil and bring himself unfathomable riches]], but instead chose to use his powers for good, while expecting no payment for his deeds (the song also compares him to Franchise/{{Tarzan}} of the Apes, who is considered to be a crude, rouge, and uncivilized AntiHero). The song focuses on the death of the superhero, and its chorus says it all: "Superman never made any money / For saving the world from Solomon Grundy / '''''And sometimes I despair the world will never see''''' / '''''Another man like him'''''". As if that wasn't chilling enough, there is even a [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihUIPlLw2ZE music video]] that shows his funeral! And this was over a year before the ''[[ComicBook/TheDeathOfSuperman Death of Superman]]'' StoryArc!* "Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette)" by Merle Travis and Tex Williams, while not exactly a celebration of a smoker's lifestyle, includes the lyrics "...And I don't reckon that it'll harm your health/Smoked all my life and I ain't dead yet", spoken by Williams. Well, now he is dead. Cause of death? Pancreatic cancer, one of the diseases linked to cigarette smoking.* The Funker Vogt song "Body Count", about a terrorist attack "much worse than Oklahoma" with bodies "burnt beyond recognition", was released just a year before the September 11th attacks. The song was [[TooSoon omitted from their US tour]] that year.* The skit "Lodi Dodi Intro" on [[Music/SnoopDogg Snoop Doggy Dogg's]] debut album ''Doggystyle'', which was released on September 7, 1993, features Daz Dillinger of Tha Dogg Pound referring to rappers who were dissing Snoop, Dr. Dre and Tha Dogg Pound as " Busta ass, HIV pussy-ass motherfuckers," with Dre ending with the words, "Yo yo yo Daz, easy come, easy *blam*" Just short of 1 1/2 years later, on March 26, 1995, Music/EazyE, who had been involved in a long lyrical feud with his ex-Music/{{NWA}} bandmate Dre since the group's collapse in 1991, died of AIDS. * Music/{{Front 242}}'s "Circling Overland" is about a {{cyberpunk}} {{police state}} monitored by [[BigBrotherIsWatching aerial surveillance drones]], which the US Department of Homeland Security is currently using or testing.* The Music/RedHousePainters video for "All Mixed Up" had a good portion of it shot in the courtyard of the World Trade Center... with a panicked sad fairy running around. There's even a shot of her crying with the twin towers looming RIGHT in the background.** Also of note is the cover of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Oldramon.jpg ''Old Ramon'']]. This wouldn't be so bad if it weren't released just a few months before 9-11.* There's a damn hard to find picture of Music/JeffBuckley taken underwater looking like he's drowning.** "I couldn't awake from the nighmare, it sucked me in and pulled me under" from "So Real" on ''Music/{{Grace}}''.* Famous singer Music/SineadOConnor's [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCOIQOGXOg0 controversial Saturday Night Live poem]] about world injustice and child rape, ended with her ripping a picture of Vatican Pope John Paul II. The corrupt stories about the Vatican were unknown to the large majority of people at the time. Years after she was vilified and temporary ran out of the music business, stories about child abuse and child rape by Roman Catholic priest - and the cover up afterwards - got exposed to the mainstream public.* Let's take a look at the lyrics from [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRHN7URkCIc this]] song:--> A war is raging that we don't understand--> And I doubt that we can--> There's no mistaking the mad sons of Islam--> As they spill blood on the sand--> A strange religion, that destroys through the Koran--> Freedom's lost in this land--> Hades or heaven. they're under it's command--> Whatever rights had a man--> We'll hear the bomb blasts round' the world--> With two world wars passed they want to start the third--> As they argue 'bout the planes they shot down--> And count the dead they have found--> An unholy war that's raising hell to the ground--> The war drags ever on--> The war drags ever on--> The war drags ever on--> ever on--> An arm is severed with a gun still in it's hand--> And it's just left to be damned--> Their main endeavor has not gone as it was planned--> Shoot the boys where they stand--> War is forever but as if we had the time--> To change their thoughts in their minds--> This war will never reflect on all their kind--> They should be glad just to die** Makes you think a-lot of the war on terror, right? Well this song was written all the way back in 1984, but it is {{Justified|Trope}} in the sense that many people saw the war on terror coming.* Chad Gilbert's and Hayley Williams's guest appearances on Music/SayAnything's ''In Defense of the Genre'' is a little more awkward once you learn that Chad was rumored to have divorced his wife for Hayley. Said ex-wife is Sherri Dupree... who is now frontman Max Bemis's wife.* The chorus for Mindy [=McCready=]'s "Oh Romeo" - "Oh Romeo/Who would lay down her life?/Swallow the poison, pick up the knife/Maybe I cried/Just a teardrop or two/I would not die for you/I would not die for you..." - is, like the whole song, a lot harder to take considering that in 2013, not long after her boyfriend was found dead, she committed suicide.* The music video for Suicide Silence's song "You Only Live Once" features the band playing in a shooting gallery and taking bullets (most likely fake bullets for recording, but there was blood involved). It becomes harsh when you consider Mitch Lucker, the band's former lead singer, dying on November 1, 2012 in a motorcycle crash while drunk.* The opening percussion of The Beatles' "Come Together" from ''Music/AbbeyRoad'' is punctuated by John's repeated 'SHOOT me!'. The same interjection appears in the unreleased Beatles track "Watching Rainbows," which also features the eerie line 'Whatever you do, you gotta shoot somebody today.' (Some fans claim the "Rainbows" shout to be 'Shoot big', but this clearly isn't the case.)** Likewise, John's "Happiness Is A Warm Gun" from ''Music/TheWhiteAlbum'' - despite being an ode to both heroin and his sex life with Yoko - is frighteningly ironic today.* Music/{{ABBA}} had a song ''I am a Marionette'', which is about a singer's CreatorBreakdown. Just a couple of years later, ABBA collapsed due to collective CreatorBreakdown.* Edguy's first live album is entitled ''Burning Down The Opera''. The Paris venue where the album was recorded later burned down. It was something like a decade or more after the record was released, but is nonetheless chilling.* Music/SonicYouth had a song called "Sleepin' Around", which was written and sung by Thurston Moore, and had lyrics chastising someone for cheating on their partner. Five years later, the CreatorCouple of Moore and Kim Gordon separated, leaving the future of the band uncertain... And a couple of years after ''that'', Gordon revealed [[http://www.elle.com/pop-culture/celebrities/kim-gordon-sonic-youth-profile?src=soc_fcbks in an interview]] that the separation was because of Moore having an affair. Given the timing, it's at least somewhat in the realm of possibility that the song was actually RealitySubtext. * An incredibly creepy example from the Music/PetShopBoys: their second album ''Actually'', included a track called "Kings Cross", about the general decay and injustice in the UK at the time, climaxing with the narrator finding himself at Kings Cross station in London, with "dead and wounded on either side". '''Two months''' after the album was released, thirty-one people were killed in a massive fire at the adjacent [[UsefulNotes/TheLondonUnderground London Underground]] station, which many people blamed on the government's underinvestment in the transportation system. As a result, many people who hear the song and aren't aware of the short gap in time assume that it's a protest about the fire.* The name of the band "Katrina and the Waves" was chosen in 1982; it is best known for its 1985 hit "Walking on Sunshine". In 2005, Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, giving the band's name some rather unfortunate associations and inspiring many tasteless jokes.* One of the first smash hits by Mexican singer Juan Gabriel is named "El Noa Noa", after a famous night club where he started his career. Bad thing, the (apparently now closed) "Noa Noa" club was located in... [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciudad_Ju%C3%A1rez Ciudad Juárez]]. * One of Music/JohnDenver's song's is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19ToC8pQrCY "Leaving on a Jet Plane."]] He died in a plane crash.* "Goodbye Blue Sky" from ''Music/TheWall'' is about [[WorldWarII The Battle of Britain]] and its effects on the warbabies, but listening to it now, it's eerie how many parallels you can draw to 9/11, what with lines like "Look mummy, there's an aeroplane up in the sky" (the plane about to crash into the tower) and "Did you ever wonder why we had to run for shelter when the promise of a brave new world unfurled beneath a clear blue sky?" (The towers coming down).* Some of the imagery in "The Tower" by [=NoMeansNo=] has grown harsher on American ears since its initial release. Specifically, the line, "From a burning building a man leaps to his death."* The Brutal DeathMetal band Music/{{Skinless}} has a song called "Tampon Lollipops". The song's lyrics involve a janitor eating used tampons. Fast-forward to Giovanna Plowman ACTUALLY EATING a tampon, and the {{Squick}}-worthy lyrics become even more-so.* The Music/RoyOrbison song "Claudette" is one of the minority of songs by the artist with a happy ending, referencing how "I'm gonna be so happy for the rest of my life, when my brand-new baby is my brand-new wife." Sweet -- until you realize that the titular Claudette, Orbison's first wife, died in a motorcycle accident. He would live another twenty-two less than perfectly happy years.* Rockwell's [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YvAYIJSSZY "Somebody's Watching Me"]] has becoming a lot creepier since the [[ParanoiaFuel NSA's recent activity.]]* "Wasted" by Music/DefLeppard is about a rockstar and his battles with addiction, Fast forward 11 years, and Steve Clark dies from Alcohol abuse. "(Wasted) I've wasted my time/(Wasted) I'm shooting a line/(Wasted) I'm out of my head/(Wasted) I wish I was dead"* Fastball's "The Way" was inspired by a news report about a married couple that drove off and vanished while their kids were home asleep. The songwriter imagined they'd spontaneously headed out on a marvelous road trip; unfortunately, lines like "They'll never get hungry / never get old and gray" turned out to be technically ''true'', because the couple's car was later discovered, having run off the road and killed them both.* Robots In Disguise's song "The Tears" is about being afraid that your partner is cheating on you, and taking every little gesture or word as a sign that it's true. At the time, band members [[PunnyName Sue Denim and Dee Plume]] were both in long-term relationships- Dee with Noel Fielding and Sue with Chris Corner (of IAMX). Unfortunately, as it turned out, they didn't need any signs to tell them: Sue reportedly saw Chris kissing someone else at a concert and dumped him, and Noel left Dee for Pixie Geldof. ''Ouch.''* In 2001, Polish vocalist Monika Kuszyńska had a hit single "Maj" ("May"), in which she sang about a May that changed her entire life. In May 2006, she was seriously wounded in a car crash, which left her permanently paralyzed from the waist down.* Patty Donahue of The Waitresses is seen smoking in the video for their 1980s hit "I Know What Boys Like". Donahue died of lung cancer in 1996. * Music/TheFall's "Powder Keg" included cryptic references to UsefulNotes/TheTroubles ("retreat from [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enniskillen Enniskillen]]") and some sort of tragedy occurring in Mark E. Smith's home city of Manchester ("It going to hurt me / Manchester city centre", "Don't you know, the town is a powder keg"). A mere five days after the song was released, a bombing was carried out in Manchester city centre by the IRA. Because of this, there was actually some speculation that Smith somehow knew the attack had been planned; his response was the sarcastic claim "I'm bloody psychic!". * Soul Asylum's video for "Runaway Train", which features names and photos of real missing children from the early 1990s, was already heart-wrenching when it first aired in 1993. Two decades later, it's known that several of the youths appearing in the Australian version were murdered by serial killer Ivan Milat, and others in Britain and America were likewise victims of homicide. (Including a little girl who was murdered and buried in a backyard [[OffingTheOffspring by her own mother]] in the middle of a terrible divorce process) Five of the missing, including a toddler who appears last in the video, have yet to be found. What's more, at least one of the teenagers had run away to escape an abusive home and was angry at the band for enabling her parents to find her.* In the music video for "Paparazzi", Music/LadyGaga is shown in a wheelchair and then with crutches after being thrown off a balcony. In February 2013, she suffered a hip injury that resulted in the cancellation of the rest of the Born This Way Ball's tours.* Gram Parsons' second album ends with "In My Hour Of Darkness", a GriefSong featuring a verse about a young man who "played to people everywhere/Some say he was a star/But he was just a country boy/His simple songs confess". Parsons died of an overdose age 26, four months before the album came out.* "Sell Sell Sell" by Music/BarenakedLadies is ostensibly about an actor's career and the war movie that made him a celebrity, but the severity with which the movie is condemned by the lyrics suggest that it's an allegory for an actual war, with the "actor" being the politician who orchestrated it. Or maybe it's just impossible not to hear it that way since the IraqWar, which started two years after the song was released.* "Hurricane", a song recorded in 1980 by Levon Helm which was also a Top 10 country hit a year later for Leon Everette. In it, a native of New Orleans is unfazed when a man from Chicago suggests that they raise their levees because "we finally taught her that it takes a lot of water to wash away New Orleans". Cue Hurricane Katrina in 2005…* Don Henley's "New York Minute" has some lyrics which are a lot more powerful post-9/11 than when the song was written. "In a New York minute/everything can change . . ." — it sure did.* A lot of the songs on Music/RelientK's album ''Five Score and Seven Years Ago''(Specifically "The Best Thing, "Must Have Done Something Right", and "I'm Taking You With Me") are rather hard to listen to; they're about how happy lead singer Matthew Thiessen was with his fiance. After the release of the album, she called off the engagement and he suffered a mild CreatorBreakdown as a result.* Colorado's state song ''Where the Columbines Grow'' (and for that matter, anything to do with columbines) after the school shooting at Columbine High School in 1999. On the other hand, Colorado's other state song, ''Rocky Mountain High'' could qualify as {{Hilarious In Hindsight}} after marijuana was legalized there in 2012.* Jo Dee Messina's "Bring On the Rain" is a song about facing adversity, with the chorus stating "Tomorrow's another day, and I'm thirsty anyway / So bring on the rain." The date of the song's release? September 10, 2001.* Robin Thicke's 2013 single "Blurred Lines" attracted extensive criticism and controversy for its alleged trivialization of sexual consent (featuring as it did such lyrics as "I know you want it" in regards to a potential sexual encounter). Among the myriad defenses Thicke offered was his claim that he wrote the song about his wife Paula Patton, feeling confident that his wife wanted to have sex with him. While this defense carries its own UnfortunateImplications about [[MaritalRapeLicense marital consent]], it seemed notunreasonable given that Thicke and his wife seemed to be HappilyMarried. It fell into this trope when Patton left him the following year after repeated accusations of infidelity; Thicke even dedicated his subsequent album ''Paula'' to her, an album which likewise attracted controversy due to its perceived StalkerWithACrush overtones.** And then it turned out he didn't even write the damn song.* Post-metal band Isis formed in 1997, naming themselves after the Egyptian goddess. By 2014, the band had long broken up, but their name started carrying rather different connotations due to the existence of ISIS, the Islamic terrorist group - it doesn't help that the band had usually stylized their logo in all capital letters, making it look like an acronym. Their facebook page, which was mainly being used to promote former band members' other projects at that point, started being inundated with angry comments apparently confusing them with the Islamic militants, and fans noted being understandably reluctant to wear their t-shirts in public anymore. They did take a small measure against the facebook issue, changing the name of their page from "ISIS" to the less ambiguous "Isis the band". * "Adam's Song" by Music/{{Blink182}}, an anti-suicide song with an uplifting ending, became much heavier after a survivor of the Columbine massacre killed himself with the song on infinite loop. Puts a bad feeling on an otherwise optimistic song.* In 1954, blues singer Pat Hare recorded the song "I'm Gonna Murder My Baby". Nine years later, he fatally shot his girlfriend. He would spend the rest of his life in prison for the crime.* When Music/TheBeatles arrived at the Plaza Hotel in New York, some fans held signs which read "Music/{{Elvis|Presley}} is Dead, Long Live the Beatles", referring to The Beatles' rising popularity and Elvis' stagnation at the time. Half a decade later, The Beatles would split up, and barely a decade after that Elvis passed away.** "Long Live The Beatles" might also prove harsher for JohnLennon (who was murdered in 1980) and GeorgeHarrison (who died of cancer in 2001).* Miss Kittin & The Hacker's electroclash single "Frank Sinatra" was originally released in July 1998 and featured the lyric "You know Music/FrankSinatra? He's dead" - Sinatra was still alive when the single was released, but died in May of 1998. Miss Kittin has said meant the reference as a ShoutOut (and as a [[PainfulRhyme very loose rhyme for]] "VIP area"), but apparently genuinely thought he was already dead when she wrote the song. * Music/FrankZappa: Many of his songs have lines about venereal diseases, though usually just the clap. In the 1970s most of those were a nuisance, but treatable. After the AIDS scare of the 1980s many of these lines don't sound so amusing anymore, especially since one of Zappa's associates, groupie Lucy Offerall (featured in ''Film/TwoHundredMotels'') died of it in 1991. * Music/FelaKuti's final recorded song pokes fun at the AIDS scare. He would die from the same disease.* It's difficult to listen to "My Way" by Music/SidVicious without realizing he recorded it just months before he murdered his partner Nancy Spungen and then took a suicidical drug overdose out of remorse. Was that "his way" when "the end is near and he faced the final curtain?" * Music/BlackSabbath's album ''Music/{{Paranoid}}'' has a DrugsAreBad song named "Hand Of Doom", sang by Music/OzzyOsbourne. If you realize how much unhealthy stuff Ozzy would take the following decades this makes this song particularly harsh to listen to. He is still alive today, though the effects of all this drug abuse are very visible and audible. * Music/ElvisPresley singing "Treat Me Nice", when you know that during the final years of his life he was merely exploited by his manager Colonel Parker to perform, even when he was ill, under the influence or suffering from exhaustion. * ''Music/OutToLunch'' by Music/EricDolphy would be his final album after his untimely death, making the casual album title all the more morbid when you realize he's never coming back. * ''Rise Above'', a 2002 Music/BlackFlag tribute album performed by [[Music/HenryRollins The Rollins Band]] and various guest vocalists, included Nick Oliveri ({{Music/Kyuss}}, Music/QueensOfTheStoneAge) singing "Jealous Again". The song's narrator, addressing his girlfriend, claims "I won't beat you up / No, I won't push you around / 'cause if I did that the cops would get me for doin' it"; this became ironic after an incident in 2011 where Oliveri was [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Oliveri#Legal_issues arrested on suspicion of domestic violence]].* "Why Do I Keep Counting?" by Music/TheKillers is about a suicidally depressed guy. Keeping that in mind, the first two lines of the song "There's a plane and I am flying / There's a mountain waiting for me" become quite creepy after [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanwings_Flight_9525 Germanwings Flight 9525]].* "[[http://philnews.ph/2012/03/26/dota-o-ako-music-video-most-popular-viral-video-phils-lyrics/ DOTA O Ako]]" becomes this because of reports of break-ups, with online games as the cause. Only this time, [[http://www.todayinmanila.com/2015/05/viral6-years-live-in-partner-broke-up.html#.VWJMok-eDGf a live-in couple broke up]] because of the video game [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clash_of_Clans Clash of Clans]].* The song He Hit Me (And It Felt Like A Kiss). It's pretty disturbing in the first place but becomes even more uncomfortable when you find out that not only is it absolutely sincere and unironic, it's based on the actual relationship the singer Little Eva had with her boyfriend. And it gets even worse when you consider that the producer is Phil Spector, who is an infamous domestic abuser, and was later arrested for murdering an actress he was dating.